{"id":9847,"date":"2015-02-03T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margiewarrellold.flywheelsites.com\/?p=9847"},"modified":"2015-02-03T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T08:00:24","slug":"layne-beachley-own-your-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/layne-beachley-own-your-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Layne Beachley: How to own your fear so it doesn&#8217;t own you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Layne Beachley is a household name for most Aussies and a woman highly admired by athletes around the globe for her back-to-back world champion surfing titles.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Recently honored with an Order of Australia, Layne has accrued a wealth of wisdom when it comes to overcoming fear, staying focused, handling failure and living a life that matters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(Layne is the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laynebeachley.com\/layne-world\/\">Aim for the Stars Foundation<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">During my recent conversation with Layne for <a href=\"http:\/\/rawcourage.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RawCourage.TV<\/a> she shared how, while coaching Australia\u2019s 2012 Olympic team, she witnessed fear sabotage the dreams of some of the world&#8217;s most elite athletes. Which just goes to show that it doesn\u2019t matter how skilled or successful you are, unless you are really intentional in where you put your attention, fear, and the self-doubt it breeds, can overtake reason, chip away at your self-confidence, derail your efforts and keep you from doing the very things needed to achieve whatever it is that you want &#8211; in your work, in your relationships, in your finances&#8230;everywhere!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Own Your Fear So It Doesn&#039;t Own You: Layne Beachley (Pt 1)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2XlqKFdSERI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>It doesn\u2019t matter how skilled or successful you are, unless you are really intentional in where you put your attention, fear can derail your efforts and keep you from doing the very things needed to achieve whatever it is that you want.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Self-awareness lays at the foundation for living a truly rewarding life. So too does brutal self-honesty.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>It begins by paying attention to what you\u2019re paying attention to \u2013 to noticing where you are giving what it is you\u2019re afraid <i>may<\/i> happen more energy and power than what it is you\u2019d truly love to <i>make<\/i> happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Layne shared in our interview, when teaching people to surf she doesn\u2019t stick them on the massive 10+metre (45ft) waves she\u2019s surfed herself. She starts them on small ones, just outside their comfort zone, and builds from there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>So yes, focus on the big things that inspire you, but then start small, with what\u2019s right in front of you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Courage, confidence and competence are all built in increments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So as you look toward your future, ask yourself where fear of what you don\u2019t want is keeping you from pursuing what you do. Trust your heart. Go with your gut. Lean into your fear and take action despite it. Any action!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Just don\u2019t let what scares you keep you from living a life that you know in your heart you want to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Layne Beachley is a household name for most Aussies and a woman highly admired by athletes around the globe for her back-to-back world champion surfing titles.\u00a0Recently honored with an Order of Australia, Layne has accrued a wealth of wisdom when it comes to overcoming fear, staying focused, handling failure and living a life that matters.\u00a0(Layne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[140,142,208,234,377,397,501,561,628,726,727,816],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brave-interviews","category-live-passionately","tag-brave-women","tag-bravery","tag-comfort-zone","tag-courage","tag-fear","tag-focus","tag-inspiration","tag-layne-beachley","tag-margie-warrell","tag-overcoming","tag-overcoming-fear","tag-rawcourage-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margiewarrell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}